Herb Van Den Dool
Senior Web Developer, Scrum Master Project Manager at Freeform Solutions
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolHerb Van Den Dool is a senior web developer and certified Scrum Master with 11 years of professional experience leading web projects and delivery as Senior Web Developer and Project Manager at Freeform Solutions. He blends hands-on back-end work—contributing to projects like the CiviCRM core—with front-end improvements such as responsive navigation enhancements in the Backdrop CMS, showing full-stack fluency across open-source ecosystems. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs technical execution with team facilitation, guiding agile teams from planning through upgrades and integration. His background in political economy and science informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to problem solving and stakeholder engagement. Outside engineering he has a long history in cycling advocacy and community leadership, reflecting durable community-first instincts. That mix of open-source contributions, delivery leadership, and civic engagement makes him effective at shipping practical software that serves organizations and users.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Political Economy, Master’s Degree, Political Economy at York UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at The King's UniversityCertificate, ScrumMaster, Certificate, ScrumMaster at ScrumAlli
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Github Skills (14)
css10
responsive-design10
php10
user-interface10
back-end-development10
civicrm10
database-design9
drupal8
apidoc7
mysql7
api7
google-chrome6
sendmessage6
cms4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
backdrop/backdrop
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Backdrop core code repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 290 reviews, 182 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Herb implemented a responsive hamburger menu toggle for dropdown menus, adding CSS and modifications to the theme files. This involved creating a button icon and the necessary CSS to control the menu's visibility on smaller screens. The user's work improved the user experience by making the navigation more accessible on mobile devices and smaller screens. This is evident from the commit messages and the code diffs.
cmsbackdropphpcode-repository
civicrm/civicrm-core
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
CiviCRM (Core Application and Framework)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 44 commits, 52 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Herb primarily focused on back-end development, making changes to core CiviCRM files. Their work included clarifying permission descriptions, database configurations, path management, and fixing URLs. The user also addressed module extension handling and refined the handling of static variables. Additionally, they contributed to the upgrade process by adding recent items providers.
backbonejscivicrm
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